SUDANESE PRESIDENT WON’T PARTICIPATE IN OIC MEETING IN ISTANBUL

PanARMENIAN.Net
09.11.2009 12:05 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Omar al-Bashir told Abdullah Gul, his Turkish
counterpart, on Sunday that he would not attend a meeting of the
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in Istanbul on Monday,
Al Jazeera reported.

The cancellation came after the European Union put pressure on host
Turkey to either stop al-Bashir from attending the economic summit or
arrest him upon arrival. Sudan’s leader is wanted by the International
Criminal Court (ICC) for trial on charges of war crimes and crimes
against humanity in the western region of Darfur.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, questioned the
charges against al-Bashir and said that "no Muslim could perpetrate
a genocide", according to Turkey’s Anatolia news agency. "If there
was such a thing [genocide], we could talk about it face to face with
President Bashir."